Harry Culver

Harry Hazel Culver (22 January 1880-17 August 1946) was an American real estate developer and producer. Culver City in Los Angeles County, California is named for him.

Biography
Harry Hazel Culver was born in Milford, Nebraska, United States on 22 January 1880, and he served as a sergeant in the US Army during the Spanish-American War. After attending Doane College for a year, he studied business at the University of Nebraska for three years, and he worked in the Philippines as a merchant, Manila Times reporter, and special customs agent from 1901 to 1904. In 1910, he began working in real estate in southern California, and he founded Culver City in 1917 after funding it with the Culver Investment Company. Culver served as President of the National Association of Realtors in 1923, and he moved his headquarters to his newly-built Culver Hotel a year later. He died in Hollywood in 1946 at the age of 66.